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Minimalist vs Maximalist

Minimalist vs Maximalist

I have a lot of birthdays to make cards for this month so I thought today I'd do a little batch making of some floral cards using what I think is probably my all time favourite floral layering stamp - Wildwood by The Greetery. I have struggled with layering floral stamps in the past (I rarely use a stamping tool - I'm an acrylic block girl) but this set I found just super-super-easy to align the layers and the images are sized perfectly for cards whether you want to go minimal as in my first example or whether you want to go crazy and fill a card maximalist style as in my second!"

For the first card I just used the stamps - no dies and a very simple mask. I started with the yellow flower - stamped the main image (all the inks I used came from my Concord and 9th ink cube set - this was sunflower), masked it off and stamped the red flower over the top so it looks like its behind. I masked off just the bottom of the red flower so I could add the bud branch behind both (this shows how clever the stamp set it as the bud that goes "across" the other stem has a line missing so this helps alignment and stops the bud colouring over the stem) I added some leaves and a thistle below the yellow flower before removing the mask.

I drew a pencil line to cut along so I could make a belly band - if you are not comforable with cutting around the flowers you could use the dies and layer the flowers up that way - this is just a fun different technique. I added a strip of sunflower card behind the band and added a sentiment to it.

For the background to the card I wanted some softer foliage so I used the feather/frond image and the thistle in oxide inks (pumice stone and bundled sage) and then added some gold dots and some red, yellow and green splatters to add some gentle colour to the CAS background.

For the second card I just went nuts on the stamping and die cutting! Again I pulled out the Concord and 9th inks and filled a whole sheet of A4 with all the images. When building a real flower bouquet they recommend 3s or 5s of each flower (so never an even number) so I applied the same idea here and found it a really easy way to balance the image. I did a rough layout, took a snap on my phone then proceeded to glue them all down onto my background.

My background was an experiment - I've never been great at the "squish and spray" technique on a glass mat or similar but now we have the Waffle Flower Grip Mats I wanted to experiment with them to see if they would work in a similar way to a geli plate. As it is essentially a "large flat stamp" then it will transfer ink in the same way. I just added a couple of different oxide ink colours on the mat, added a little water and pressed my card into it. It was quite a sucessful first attemp so I think I will try some more press plate techniques next to see if they can be used like a print press.

Hopefully that's given you some ideas - sorry I didn't video it today - the weather is dreadful and the lighting so poor it was just too dark. We also have a lot going on personally at the moment so we are struggling to fit everything in.

NEWS FROM THE STORE

Talking of not enough time - we are working on our day off a little today to try and catch up.

We will finish adding the latest Altenew release this afternoon.

The current release from Concord and 9th shipped on Friday so customs willing will be here tomorrow or Tuesday.

The latest MFT release is in transit too and again should be here tomorrow or Tuesday.

Mama Elephant's upcoming release will be in store on the 15th.

The super-cute new release from Purple Onion Designs is shipping tomorrow - we should receive it by Thursday/Friday and will get it in store as soon as we can.

The Greetery have a new release on the 21st November - we hope to have it in store as close to release as possible and will have more bows back in stock then too!

That's all for this week - back to work before I make dinner.

Happy Crafting

Tara

12/11/2023 | View: 244 | Categories: Die Cutting, Stamping Techniques, Stamp Layering | Tags: The Greetery

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